Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000083/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 February 1996.
1. This was an appeal against a conviction for careless driving. The facts were that a taxi was being driven south bound uphill along Lei Tung Estate Road. The appellant, a police sergeant, was driving a government vehicle in the opposite direction downhill. There is a bend in the road and the carriageways are separated by continuous double white lines. It was the taxi driver's contention that the appellant drove his vehicle across the double white lines and caused it to collide in a minor way w